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• Zohran Mamdani on Using Government to Fight for the Many

  On Sunday, April 12, Zohran Mamdani delivered a speech reflecting on his first one hundred days as New York City’s mayor.His remarks are reprinted here. It is a Sunday night in New York City. And while some prepare for the week ahead, for many, the workday has only just begun. Tonight, in the northern reaches

• Why the US-Iran Talks Failed

  The first face-to-face high-level talks between the US and Iran since 1979 have ended without agreement. Hardly surprising; both sides put forward positions not subject to actual bargaining. On the US side, according to JD Vance:  “We need to see an affirmative commitment that [Iran] will not seek a nuclear weapon and they will not

• 21st-Century Fascism and the Antichrist

  One of the most influential interpretations of 20th-century fascism is that fascism was a rebellion against the secularism of the modern era, which proposed a transcendent society both on a practical level (progress) and on a theoretical level (the possibility of transcending all limits). This rebellion led to the return of political religion (religion as